EditorialFish Hacha, 6th?8th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Classic Veracruz, Stone, traces of plaster, H. 14 7/8 x W. 3 1/4 x D. 9 5/8 in. (37.8 x 8.3 x 24.5 cm), Stone-Sculpture, Mesoamerican ballplayers wore protective gear called hachas, palmas, an...
EditorialUzbek?Prisoner, late 18th19th?century, Opaque watercolor on paper, image: 8 11/16 ? 9 9/16 in. (22 ? 24.3 cm), Portraits of Uzbek prisoners in yokes appeared in Persian painting as early as the sixteenth century, and the motif continued as a theme into...
EditorialModel of a War Galley, Testified truss model of a flat-bottomed gun galley with thirty oars, on a standard, incomplete. The ship has one deck with raised section in the middle, the dulls lie on this raised section and the railing. No galleon, a single-...
EditorialModel of a War Galley, Testified truss model of a flat-bottomed gun galley with thirty oars, on a standard, incomplete. The ship has one deck with raised section in the middle, the dulls lie on this raised section and the railing. No galleon, a single-...
EditorialPatriotic turmoil in Gelderland, Obverse: inscription. Reverse: wall crown decorated with 6 orange apples and leaves above inscription and stack of yokes, chains, swords, etc., Gelderland, anonymous, Netherlands, 1785, cardboard, printing, d 5.3 cm ? w...
EditorialCradle Cradle Rocking Cradle, rocking cradle of ebony, decorated with sculpture and inlaid with ivory. The elongated compartment has profiled lower, middle and upper lines between which two rows of balusters are located, alternating between ebony and i...
EditorialFish Hacha, 6th?8th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Classic Veracruz, Stone, traces of plaster, H. 14 7/8 x W. 3 1/4 x D. 9 5/8 in. (37.8 x 8.3 x 24.5 cm), Stone-Sculpture, Mesoamerican ballplayers wore protective gear called hachas, palmas, an...